Re: [Bug-tar] a multithreaded tar ??

[Dat Head]

i always use gtar to tape so am limited by tape drive speeds (luckily
now 33 MB/s with
SDLT II/600 !!) so personally i don't see any warrants for it.

if you did gzcat -c *.tar.gz | tar -whatever on a SMP you'ld get some speed up
automatically i'ld imagine (vs. tar -z), but unless you had some really large
tar balls i can't see where it would help that much.

> > Now that multicore chips are everywhere, it seems like a worthwhile
> > feature. I did some crude measurements on a 4P box and saw the potential
> > for a decent speedup. [Specifically, untar of a .gz wasn't bottlenecked on
> > IO.]
>
> What do you like to achive here and on which OS?